Quote of the Day - Ass. Jail. Mine.

From "Making Light" during a discussion on the release of the torture memos from the Bush/Cheney Administration:

#43 ::: Marna Nightingale ::: (view all by) ::: April 19, 2009, 11:08 PM:

How about a current CIA agent who might be reluctant to perform currently legal interrogation techniques (or anything else required of their jobs)

Well, let us picture that, shall we?

CIA Agent: "I'm not torturing anybody. It'll land my sorry ass in jail."

"Oh, c'mon. The memo says it's not torture. It's "enhanced interrogation".

"Nope. Not doin' it. Ass. Jail. Mine."

"I'm your boss, and I say it's ok."

"So fire me. Ass. Jail."

"The head of the CIA says it's okay!"

"Tell him to come do it then. I'm not torturing anybody."

"The PRESIDENT says it's okay!"

"I don't give a damn. I don't care if GOD comes down and writes it on that hillside in letters of fire ten feet high. Ass. Jail. Mine. Not torturing anybody. I quit."

... Yeah. I'm good with it. I am so damned good with it.

And just to save some time here? If this leads directly to a terrorist attack on my home city which causes my crushed body to be found under a pile of smoking rubble?

I am counting on someone from ML to make sure my gravestone says "she preferred this to condoning torture". Goudy Old Style, please, large type. :-)

Grammar Police

I go slightly mad every time I see a writer refer to "great tenants of design" or plot or whatever. A tenant is a resident, a landowner, a roomer, a lodger... It's TENET, dammit!

*sigh*

Move along... nothing to see here but a foaming-at-the-mouth grammar geek.

*sigh*

That about says it...